“It is the sauce that distinguishes a good chef. The Saucier is a soloist in the orchestra of a great kitchen.” – Fernand Point
So true! You can saute a chicken breast to perfection and make a great meal, but if you know how to make simple pan sauces, you can prepare a hundred different meals. Furthermore, you are going to find every cuisine has it’s own style of sauces, some similar, some completely different.
For example, Italian sauces for pasta like a Genovese sauce are much different from classic French sauces like a demi glace sauce. A simple soy ginger sauce for Chinese dumplings looks and tastes different from an Indian curry sauce. Even barbecue sauces can be different depending on where you live.
So here are some of my favorite sauces from various cuisines that you can enjoy with your favorite meals.
How to Prepare a Classic Charcutière Sauce Charcutiere sauce is a variation of Sauce Robert with the addition of cornichons, a small tart pickle made from gherkin cucumbers. It is excellent on pork dishes. If you look at its literal French translation, is “sauce of the pork butcher”. So basically, what we have is one […]
How to Prepare a Unique Version of Sweet & Sour Sauce This is not your classic Asian sweet and sour sauce using soy sauce as a base. This version features demi glace as the base with sugar for sweetness and vinegar for the sour. It also calls for capers for a salty component. Capers are […]
This sauce is multi-dimensional. How to Prepare Root Vegetable Balsamic Sauce This is a great time of year to use up some of your root vegetables to make a sauce that works well with duck, pork or game birds. The root vegetables provide a deep and earthy flavor while the balsamic vinegar a touch of […]
Paprika is ground red peppers. There are sweet and hot varieties. Hungarian paprika is considered the best but Spanish paprika is excellent as well. Best Served With: chicken recipes or over a bed of noodles How to Prepare Paprika Sauce PrintPaprika Sauce Recipe Ingredients2 cups chicken stock 3 shallots, minced 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 […]
The Albufera is a freshwater lagoon and estuary on the Gulf of Valencia coast in eastern Spain. The sauce was thought to be named after one of Nepoleon’s general, Louis Gabriel Suchet, the “duc d’Albufera”. This sauce is made with glace de viande which is nothing more than basic brown beef or veal stock reduced […]
Sauce Supreme is basically a veloute sauce enriched with heavy cream. You’ll start to notice that many of the classic French sauces are derivatives of one of the 5 Mother Sauces. How to Prepare a Delicious Sauce Supreme Some chefs take it a step further and enhance it with mushroom flavor. This can certainly […]
Here you have a simple but delicious pan sauce that can be served with grilled boneless chicken breasts or a fresh piece of fish. The combination of mustard with chopped tarragon and butter works perfectly for preparing this extremely easy sauce. How to Prepare a Delicious Mustard Tarragon Butter Sauce PrintMustard Tarragon Butter Sauce […]
If you are looking for a great sauce to serve with steak, pork tenderloin or duck, look no further. This Dried Cherry Cognac Sauce is easy to prepare and has magnificent flavor. How to Prepare Dried Cherry Cognac Sauce Cognac is a type of brandy from the Cognac region of France and considered by many […]
How to Prepare Bonnefoy Sauce This sauce is exactly the same as the Bordelaise and sometimes called “white Bordelaise” or “Sauce Bordelaise au Vin Blanc” except that it calls for white wine instead of red wine. However, like Bordelaise Sauce, employ a dry and fuller bodied white wine such as Chardonnay. Named after a famous […]
How to Prepare Restaurant Quality Black Olive Sauce With dozens of varieties, olives are indigenous to the Mediterranean and have been revered by man for millennia. Green olives are picked prior to ripening and black ones after ripening. Nicoise olives hail from the Provence region of France but are grown in other countries. They are […]
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